Known to have once been a whole bee, Eric, (featured in a Monty Python sketch) is now only half of a bee. Often seen as "some freak at a menagerie", Eric ("the half-a-bee") is in fact not, merely just a "half-a-bee": A bee bisected accidentally
one summer's afternoon by a
one John Cleese. Who, it is known, now loves him carnally. Semi-carnally. Syril Connerly. etc.